About

Chris Sands, 37, is a freelance journalist who has been reporting from Afghanistan since 2005 - living there for more than nine of those years. His writing and photography have been published by Le Monde, the New Statesman, Esquire, Mother Jones, The National, Aljazeera, The Islamic Monthly, the Independent and the San Francisco Chronicle. He has been interviewed about Afghanistan for BBC Radio 4's Today Programme. In 2008 the New Statesman nominated him for a Foreign Press Award. Chris' writing featured in the 2010 book The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Verso). That same year his photography was used in a charity exhibition designed to educate school children in the north of England about